San Antonio attorney Emma Cano recently received the Pedro
“Pete” Serrano Leadership Award during the 2013 State Bar of
Texas Annual Meeting. The award is presented annually to the member of
the LeadershipSBOT class who best exemplifies the qualities of
leadership, integrity, and inclusiveness.

“This award embodies the spirit of LeadershipSBOT,” C.E.
Rhodes, 2012-2013 president of the Texas Young Lawyers Association,
said during an awards ceremony June 20 in Dallas. “This
year’s honoree led this class the moment she arrived at the first
event in Austin. She is organized, thoughtful, and successful in all
that she does. She sets goals for herself and those she works with—but
so subtly, her colleagues don’t realize that they are now part of
a master plan.”

Cano, a 2002 Texas Tech University School of Law graduate, is an
attorney with Haynes and Boone, LLP, where her practice focuses on
complex commercial litigation in federal and state courts. Her many
honors include being named a Texas Super Lawyer “Rising
Star” in Business Litigation by Texas Monthly in 2007
and 2008, being selected as the Outstanding Young Lawyer by the San
Antonio Young Lawyers Association in 2008, and being named by the
San Antonio Business Journal as one of its “40 Under
40” rising stars in 2010.

The State Bar of Texas Board of Directors voted in April 2011 to
honor the late Pedro “Pete” Serrano by re-naming the
LeadershipSBOT Presidents’ Award as the Pedro “Pete”
Serrano Leadership Award. The award is named after Serrano, a member of
the inaugural LeadershipSBOT class who died in 2009.

Created in 2008, LeadershipSBOT is a diversity initiative of the
State Bar of Texas and Texas Young Lawyers Association designed to
recruit, train, and inspire attorneys to take leadership positions
within the bar. The yearlong program consists of two training sessions
and concludes with the presentation of group projects during the State
Bar Annual Meeting. For more information, visit texasbar.com/leadershipsbot.

The State Bar of Texas is an administrative agency
of the Supreme Court of Texas that provides educational programs for
the legal profession and the public, administers the minimum continuing
legal education program for attorneys, and manages the attorney
discipline system.